On April 24th we left the beautiful Monahans Sandhills State Park in Texas
and headed for Dallas. We stayed at Dallas West RV Park and Homer spoke to
the students at the Parkhill Junior High School in the Richardson area of
Dallas on Friday. Two of the children that our friend Bobbie Kerr has
adopted go to school there. We went out for pizza with nine of her
children. After school we started on the long trip back to Jasper. We
arrived home Saturday afternoon.

We have been busy trying to visit our families and get chores done around
the house. Of all the places we have visited these past two years Jasper
sure looks good to us. As the old saying goes, "Thereís no place like home".

On Monday, May 1 Homer drove the ìlong 38 milesî to Alpharetta to speak to
the students at the Manning Oaks Elem School. Then he left me and the
AbeMobile parked here and drove the Lincoln up to Tipp City, Ohio and spoke
to the students at Broadway Elem School. He had been at that school nine
years ago so it was past time for a re-visit. He then drove further north
to the Youngstown area and spoke to students at South Range Elem School in
Canfield and Beloit Elem School in Beloit. He left there Friday after
school and drove to the Chicago area. He walked with Ms. B's fourth grade
class from J. B. Nelson Elem School in Batavia in the big VFW Loyalty Day
Parade on Sunday. The entire class entered a poster contest and one of Ms.
Bís students won the poster contest and a pizza party for the class.

I have not been feeling good for the past couple of weeks due to all the
dust we were in in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas so I visited Doctor Perrow
last week and got some medicine to help fight the breathing problems.

For Mother's Day I visited all three of my girls, Melinda, Janet and
Jennifer and my eight grandchildren, Haley, Jonathan, Angel, Miranda,
Kimberly, Ashley, Samatha and Nicholas. We had a cookout and took a walk in
the woods and to the waterfalls with the kids. I also visited Jennifer in
her home in Ellijay. She had some major surgery on her head to try to
eliminate headaches and blurred vision. She seems to be doing much better.

We are glad to be back in Jasper and hope to see some of you for a visit
now that we are ìoff the roadî for a while. We are NOT even going back out
to Mount Rushmore where Homer has spent six summers. We have lots of things
to do around the house and will work locally for a while. Until next
time....Barbara and Homer signing off for now....